The music industry itself is changing so quickly, that everything new, like Spotify, all feels to me a bit like a grand… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
The most demanding part of living a lifetime as an artist is the strict discipline of forcing oneself to work steadfastly along… — Anne Truitt Copy Share Image
Every artist is linked to a mistake with which he has a particular intimate relation. There is the mistake of Homer, of… — Maurice Blanchot Copy Share Image
“As I see it, even though the cartridge’s end has both characters emoting out of every pore, Accomplice!’s essential project remains abstract… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Artists are part of the information process... Visual history is important in providing a record of what is going on - levels… — Leon Golub Copy Share Image
“He hauled in Michelangelo, commanding the aged maestro to make the naked figures in The Last Judgment “suitable” for the papal chapel.… — Benjamin Blech Copy Share Image
It would be a mistake to ascribe this creative power to an inborn talent. In art, the genius creator is not just… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Even a friendly conversation which cannot be at any given moment be broken off voluntarily with complete arbitrariness has something illiberal about… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
When I was looking at the Russian Constructivists, these agitprop artists actually painted on trains. It was a heavy influence. They were… — Jeffrey Deitch Copy Share Image
To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
There are periods in your life in which you dream much more as an artist - you remember your dreams in the… — Gaspar Noe Copy Share Image
The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration.… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
In old times men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith, in later times they use the objects… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Whoever wants to know something about me - as an artist which alone is significant - they should look attentively at my… — Gustav Klimt Copy Share Image
Art is about the 'I' in life not the 'we', about private life rather than public. A public life that doesn't acknowledge… — Richard Eyre Copy Share Image
“understand what part they played. Symmetry. And because I understood that, I understood that a single painting or composition or poem might… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
I've explored a variety of directions and themes over the years. But I think in my painting you can see the signature… — Helen Frankenthaler Copy Share Image
People from the village come up and tease me: 'We hear you've started drawing on your telephone.' And I tell them, 'Well,… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
One of the weaknesses of much abstract painting is the attempt to substitute the inventions of the intellect for a pristine imaginative… — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
“Conformity no longer leads to comfort. But the good news is that creativity is scarce, and more valuable than ever. So is… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Appalachia is still, for American musicians, a kind of fountain of youth we always go back to, the old home place to… — Paul Burch Copy Share Image
I had been painting Kate Moss for a long time, both before the time of her crisis and during it. I felt… — Stella Vine Copy Share Image
The Ilan-Lael Foundation is an arts education foundation celebrating nature and the aesthetic of the built environment for its ability to help… — James T. Hubbell Copy Share Image
I love pop songs so much and I don't put a ton of pressure on myself as a solo artist to always… — Finneas Copy Share Image
Why would anyone even bring up the issue (of the statues) in a country where there are more than 10 state-owned institutions… — Gamal El-Ghitani Copy Share Image
The instinct that pulls us toward art is the impulse to evolve, to learn, to heighten and elevate our consciousness. The Ego… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
There is a spell in mediaeval Art which has had power to bewitch some people into trying, or wishing to try, or… — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
Growing up in New York with artist parents - a very liberal environment, where we were always encouraged to challenge the status… — Claire Danes Copy Share Image
I definitely enjoy working within different contexts, with different collaborators, and in different locations. I need to keep feeding myself as an… — Mirah Copy Share Image
This is the worst problem with living history museums. They always leave the best parts out. Like typhus. And opium. And scarlet… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Appreciation is the breath of life to the creative artist, and in spite of modern conditions, there is enough abroad to sustain… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
“When I was a child, I never thought to myself, someday I want to be an artist or I want to write… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Beauty is for the artist something outside all orders of rank, because in beauty opposites are tamed; the highest sign of power,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by… — Stephen Bayley Copy Share Image
We're going to do three things: teach-ins across the country so people can learn about each other's issues and causes; parties with… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
For me, it's really important that the experience of art is always something that is able to provoke strong emotion, an emotion… — Camille Henrot Copy Share Image
As an artist you can use your own discomfort and neuroses and difficulties and at least transform them into something else. Without… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
I wanted to be an honest writer and show my ugliness as much as I showed my hopes or goodness. And that… — Jewel Copy Share Image
There used to be rather serious firewalls between the artist and the buying public - the gallery, the publisher. And technology demolishes… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Marketing of art is, and to my mind has always been, trendy. Unfortunately, that doesn't mean there is any real long-term value.… — Oliver $ Copy Share Image
